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| that fight was so well-animated at the start then it started to drop.. those angry faces reminds me of the funny faces from the last arc. i admit i kinda like how they gave him an OP sword to balance it out. |
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katsu044 said: that fight was so well-animated at the start then it started to drop.. those angry faces reminds me of the funny faces from the last arc. Sorry I had to. |
Paul said: katsu044 said: that fight was so well-animated at the start then it started to drop.. those angry faces reminds me of the funny faces from the last arc. Sorry I had to. The thing is that comedy with bad animation can still achieve it's purpose but action scenes need at least a decent one. |
ssjokg said: Paul said: katsu044 said: that fight was so well-animated at the start then it started to drop.. those angry faces reminds me of the funny faces from the last arc. Sorry I had to. The thing is that comedy with bad animation can still achieve it's purpose but action scenes need at least a decent one. Doesn't that apply to the whole series as a whole? |
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EstelleBright said: for you maybessjokg said: Paul said: katsu044 said: that fight was so well-animated at the start then it started to drop.. those angry faces reminds me of the funny faces from the last arc. Sorry I had to. The thing is that comedy with bad animation can still achieve it's purpose but action scenes need at least a decent one. Doesn't that apply to the whole series as a whole? |
| This was a FUN episode. Not necessarily good, but definitely fun. I'm glad the battle was again, actually animated. If only we saw more of this in the first arc. |
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whatever123456 said: The fight was animated well, I don't see how you could consider this as bad. The animation quality was wildly inconsistent, as others have already noted, but even if it wasn't, there's more to a good fight scene than good animation. Most of the fight was shot very close up. Aside from the obvious cost-cutting on display here, there isn't really much to engage to viewer. Most of the time you're just seeing a close up of someone blocking or attacking with a strained look on their face, completely disassociated from the whole of the battle. There's probably a better way to word that but I think you'll understand what I mean. The choreography is also a problem. So far, SAO has been absolutely pathetic at making an involving, exciting fight scene, and this is no exception. It feels like most (significant) fights have come down to Kirito pressing the 'win-button', so to speak. Kirito's god-mode Dual wielding kills any and all tension that the fight may have had up to that point (not much). So yeah, SAO has terrible fight scenes. This one was no different. |
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| Why hasn't anyone recognized Kirito yet?? After all isn't he extremely famous for beating SAO?!?!?!?! |
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Hagane_no_neko said: Why hasn't anyone recognized Kirito yet?? After all isn't he extremely famous for beating SAO?!?!?!?! The fact he cleared SAO wasn't publicized. |
Hagane_no_neko said: No.No one knows that Kirito aka Kirigaya Kazuto cleared the game.Why hasn't anyone recognized Kirito yet?? After all isn't he extremely famous for beating SAO?!?!?!?! |
| Dang, that fight Kirito had against the Salamander general put his fight with Heathcliff to shame! Awesome fight and great episode in my opinion! And now Asuna's back on the scene! Things are really picking up in this series. Can't wait to see what comes up next. |
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| the Battle scene is Good though not exciting for me 5 eps to go... oh so quick :( i hope they still give eps about Offline meeting |
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Hagane_no_neko said: Why hasn't anyone recognized Kirito yet?? After all isn't he extremely famous for beating SAO?!?!?!?! Especially his own cousin, considering Kirito looks exactly like Kirigaya Kazuto. |
| Gee, I wonder when Suguha will realize that she's playing with her cous- er, brother. Hopefully by the time she realizes she likes Kirito so we can a wincest ending. |
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| Kirito's characterization has been an absolute mess from the start. He comes across as more of an amalgamation of various action hero tropes than actual person. I've lost count of how many times he has seemingly betrayed his character, so this: Takuan_Soho said: A simple example of this is the "hasn't 30 seconds passed". In the light novel it was done for comedic effect: Kirito knew that Eugene wasn't going to stop, but in the animation when he says it he is all pissed (and Kirito being pissed about a fight is completely out of character for him as well, but that is another, even more serous. matter). Individually this is a small gripe, and if it were only this episode I wouldn't have complained. But it has been this way from the beginning, and collectively they are taking a toll, at least for me. ...has me curious. Was he not this way in the novel? Is his character simply poorly adapted? |
NotDolphyNov 17, 2012 4:48 PM
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LEGOF said: Gee, I wonder when Suguha will realize that she's playing with her cous- er, brother. Hopefully by the time she realizes she likes Kirito so we can a wincest ending. |
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| Again Kirito with his haxors but since he's shown to bring stuff out of nowhere I'm just beating a dead horse. Seriously though, he didn't have any of his previous skills or items from SAO so how was he able to duel wield? Also a 2h/1h just makes it even more implausible. Also I know Leafa and Kirito quested a little but isn't getting a huge amount of money in his short time also a little questionable. It seems like the story is just being convenient for Kirito. "Oh we need money to get all of our people ready.." "Really I just happen to have enough for everyone even though I just started the game" I just wanna see Suguha find out Kirito is her cousin and the person he's trying to see is his GF/WIFE. She's cockblocking herself haha unknowingly. The fight was cool though with the choreography. However I was laughing at Kirito for how ridiculous it was making General Eugene explode from a sword fight . This arc though is just making me realize how pointless this second MMO is. In my opinion it would have been better to just not follow the source material and make all 25 episodes about SAO and focusing on how being an MMO for so long changes people. |
RMNDolphy said: Was he not this way in the novel? Is his character simply poorly adapted? whilst I'd like to defend poor old Kirito(the one-man army with a harem to die for...spew), it's pretty much the same in the LN. Although they have missed a lot of context in the anime to the LN, in regards to being characterized Kirito is a walking trope from Vol.1-10(that I've read so far). |
Hybridbloodszak said: Again Kirito with his haxors but since he's shown to bring stuff out of nowhere I'm just beating a dead horse. Seriously though, he didn't have any of his previous skills or items from SAO so how was he able to duel wield? Also a 2h/1h just makes it even more implausible. Also I know Leafa and Kirito quested a little but isn't getting a huge amount of money in his short time also a little questionable. It seems like the story is just being convenient for Kirito. "Oh we need money to get all of our people ready.." "Really I just happen to have enough for everyone even though I just started the game" See, I wish really did wish they explained it in the anime as I mentioned a few pages back as people are sure gonna be confused. Again, another major one sentence scene they could have simply added in but didn't. Basically, anyone in ALO can dual wield, the game or something simply made it too difficult to handle two swords at once so people chose not to. Someone else mentioned that all the money Kirito has is from the SAO transfer. |
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VioLink said: Best girl in this entire freaking anime, god dammit Kirito just forget about Asuna and re-marry cat-sith queen. I conpurrrr |
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Takuan_Soho said: Also, I don't think that dual weapons was impossible in SAO, what made Kirito unique was that he was the only person who had a skill involving two weapons. This skill increased his attack and defense strength pretty heavily (you can see the actual stats in episode 9 I believe), everyone else would have to first overcome the problem using two weapons, and even if they did, they wouldn't have the cool bonus features that Kirito have. In AOL, Kirito no longer has the skill bonus he had in SAO, but this doesn't mean that he lost the ability to use dual-weapons. Normally he probably wouldn't use it because it isn't that much of an advantage, but in this particular case, because of the nature of Eugene's sword, dual weapons becomes infinitely more valuable (in that it is the only way to block the sword). Well if you want to be technical, think of it as that Kirito had something like a master holding his hands while dual wielding throughout SAO called system assist. Thanks to that, he has pretty much applied to it outside of SAO(with his fight with Suguha) and in ALO. If you practice a certain skill(doesn't have to be with swords), you'll eventually learn it by heart and Kirito had spent all that time in SAO leveling his dual skills to a master level. In the LN, I believe they talk about how certain skills can be applied to the real world(forgot which volume). |
Takuan_Soho said: Also, I don't think that dual weapons was impossible in SAO, what made Kirito unique was that he was the only person who had a skill involving two weapons. This skill increased his attack and defense strength pretty heavily (you can see the actual stats in episode 9 I believe), everyone else would have to first overcome the problem using two weapons, and even if they did, they wouldn't have the cool bonus features that Kirito have. Not sure why you brought that up but I'm sure it was the skill that allowed him to equip two swords. Sure it might be 'difficult' to use two swords but think about it like this. It was two years they were in the game. Within two entire years there should have been a decent amount of players dual wielding simply because of it's popularity in any existing game, thus why he kept it secret, so people don't bug hin on how to obtain dual wielding. |
| dang the battle scene was cool, star burst stream!!! |
| Did I spot Leafa's ass!? :O Also, Kirito's harem just increased! He might able beat Rito's harem from TLR. :D |
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| SAO and ALO do not have pain mechanics in the game. When they get hit they don't feel real pain in their body. ALO is an exact copy of an earlier version of SAO. As for dual wielding, in ALO anyone can dual-wield, but it is not an official skill. However, that is hard to do because there is no assistance from the system making it a terrible choice for fighting as it leaves the player vulnerable. The only reason Kirito can dual-wield is because he had a lot of practice with it in SAO. No player in SAO could dual wield besides Kirito. The system accelerates the speed of the skills and there are damage bonuses. As for the fight, I thought it was ok. I wished it was longer, but there is probably no time to do that if they want to finish ALO with 5 episodes left. Ok, I did not remember correctly about the concept of pain. Turns out what would be painful to players in SAO and ALO is repressed. So, in the end there is almost no pain from getting hit SAO or ALO. |
xuezhiNov 17, 2012 6:19 PM
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| @Sorayin Well the pain sensation is kept pretty low, it would not have very fun to play otherwise right? The administrator can change the setting of pain absorption Though |
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Sorayin said: That was a nice episode. So do they actually feel pain or not? It keeps contradicting. Yes they do. Every time they lose health points, the headset they are wearing vibrates like crazy! Imagine you have 5 cellphones wrapped around your head and they start vibrating! I guess it's less painful if you are using a smaller replica or, the new generation of nervgear2 like Suguha. But Kirito's one is insane. Like a total shocker. He is an M, so it's all good. :") Jokes aside, I dunno how they explain pain. I do find it totally shitty that the nervgear Kirito was using for playing SAO had the reputation of being a microwave oven. And he still has the courage to wear it again. If I ever made out alive from SAO, I would have never tried that thing on. Not even as a head protector while using my bike. I admit, I am a chicken and Kirito is way above any of us useless human beings. |
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flack said: Kirito just beats anybody. He always wins no matter what and all the girls like him. How did this show get this cliched. Since beyond the beginning of time. |
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| /jumps down /instant death /respawns in cage lulz. |
| Personally I liked the battle scene and the episode overall. It's better than the 5 minutes of action we usually get from the SAO arc...But damn the fanservice just got over the top lol. I know the economics of BD sales requires it but even I had to start facepalming at the high amount of it. Ass shots, upskirts, boob jiggle all three in about 3 seconds for Lyfa in that one scene! XDDD |
| Hahaha!!!! Finally I have seen the animated battle between Kirito and Eugene, and as expected I love it when Kirito dual wield, such speed, though the battle scenes in the anime are always so short, compared to the details in the LN!!! An awesome episode anyway!! 5 more episodes to go!!! |
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